Tag Archives: Semantics

Today TaxMama® hears from Ellen in the TaxQuips Forum, who is getting conflicting information. “I had no idea, when we decided to be responsible parents to my son and the son of a family friend, that we’d have such a headache at tax time when we decided to start charging “rent” after they graduated from […]

Dear Family, During our class last night, a couple of major things went on in the world. A big chunk of Southern California and San Diego lost electricity. The nuclear power plant at San Onofre was shut down (safely). Meanwhile a student in Texas tells me she just managed to get back into her […]

Dear Family, This week is the 515th anniversary of the start of Christopher Columbus’s voyage – when he discovered the Americas. That was a very exciting discovery for Europeans who needed a political and economic safety valve, since life in Europe and England was so oppressive in those days. Naturally, those already living in, what […]

Dear Family, What a wonderful week. After rushing like crazy last week and all last weekend to finish projects and meet deadlines, Monday afternoon I flew off to Las Vegas to meet a man I’d met on the Internet. We had the most wonderful time. It really was like two old friends getting together and […]